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Blog:
Murder, Incorporated. Redux

Eugene StovallOakland, California July 4. 2014

Just weeks before
Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007,
the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations
in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager …[in
Iraq] issued a threat: “… he could kill” the government’s chief investigator
and “no one could or would do anything about it… .”

Before Shooting in Iraq,
a Warning on BlackwaterBy James Risen, New York, June 29, 2014

A forthcoming Princeton
study finds that the United States is not a democracy, but a profoundly corrupt
oligarchy. The study raises the question: "Who governs America?” The
answer is “Murder, Incorporated.”

Lucky Luciano and the Crime
Commission

Murder, Incorporated was
the enforcement organization for the nationwide criminal syndicate that
developed in the US during the late 1930s. Some refer to this criminal
syndicate as the “Commission” and others call it the “Mafia.” Charles “Lucky”
Luciano created and ran this criminal syndicate and Luciano’s ‘capo,’ Albert
Anastasia, enforced the syndicate’s
orders and decisions through Murder, Incorporated. Under Luciano and Anastasia’s
leadership, Murder, Inc. executed over 1,000 contract killings.

Lucky Luciano's criminal
empire included prostitution and in 1936, Thomas Dewey prosecuted Luciano for running
the prostitution ring known as "the Combination." On June 7, 1936, Luciano was convicted on 62
counts of compulsory prostitution and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in Sing Sing state
prison. Luciano appealed his conviction all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

Luciano’s ‘Get Out of
Jail’ Card: World War II Sabotage

Early in 1942, a few
months after the US entered World War II, the US Navy undertook the conversion
of the French luxury liner, the S.S. Normandie, into a troop transport. The
conversion took place in the New York shipyards controlled by the Commission..
Luciano wanted to show the US government that he controlled the docks of New
York City and ordered Anastasia to sabotage the S.S. Normandie. Anastasia set fire
to the S.S. Normandie on February 9, 1942. It was the most spectacular fire in
New York City's history. For hours the Normandie burned, until, listing heavily
to port, it capsized.

The destruction of the
Normandie prompted the Navy to approach the mob boss. To protect other Navy
ships berthed at the New York docks granted Luciano leniency. The government
transferred Luciano from the tough maximum security prison to a minimum
security prison. The next year, when Luciano provided the U.S. military with his
Sicilian Mafia contacts in preparation for the 1943-allied invasion of Sicily,
the US government released Lucky Luciano from prison.

US Aryanization Program

At the same time that the
US government was cowering before the Mafia, it was boldly rounding up every
American of Japanese descent and imprisoning them in concentration camps. Though
no charge of treason or espionage was brought against any of these American
citizens, the US government stripped them of their personal and real estate
properties, farms and businesses as well as the assets of their bank accounts.

The war was merely an
excuse for white racists to seize the land in California, Oregon and Washington
owned by Japanese-American citizens. Half of the Japanese-Americans employed on
the West Coast were in agriculture. They were the largest force in California's
fruit and vegetable markets. Agricultural experts expected thirty-five percent
of California's 1942 truck crops to come from Japanese-Americans farms. In 1940, farm lands owned by
Japanese-Americans were valued at $72 million and an additional $6 million in
equipment. When he signed his executive order in February 1942 ordering the
relocation of all Americans of Japanese ancestry to concentration camps, Roosevelt
gave his white cronies permission to seize all Japanese-Americans’ farms as
well as their crops and equipment. It was a repeat of Roosevelt’s earlier New
Deal seizure of black-owned farms.

The California Evacuated Farms Association of
the U.S. Farm Security Administration helped whites acquire of
Japanese-American farms with "special loans." The Farm Security
Administration negotiated the sale of Japanese farms to white farmers, but saw
that the Japanese farmer was sent to a concentration camp before the loan
arrived. Then the white farmer returned the loan to the Farm Security
Administration, clearing himself of the debt, and the Farm Security
Administration gave the white farmer legal ownership of the property. The
Japanese farmer received nothing for his farm, his crops or for his equipment. U.S.
citizens of Japanese descent were subjected to a process similar to Germany’s Aryanization
program that allowed Nazis to acquire lands and properties of Jews being
shipped to German concentration camps.

The US Government and
the Commission: A New Axis of Evil

When the US invaded and
captured Italy, General George Patton released Mafia leaders jailed by
Mussolini. At the end of the war, Patton installed Mafiosi to run the Italian government
and created the denazification program responsible for slipping 9000 Nazis into
Central and South America and 2000 Nazis into the US. The US government and its
Mafia partner used their new Nazi allies to further US policy interests in Central
and South America. Especially helpful was the experience the Nazis brought in
establishing the School of the Americas. Located at Fort Benning, Georgia, the
School of the America specialized in training Latin American ‘torture and death
squads’ that were not only deployed in Central and South America but also in Southeast Asia,
especially Vietnam, as well. The Nazi emigres helped US interests expropriate
goods and minerals by treating South America as their own private plantations while
depressing living conditions for the inhabitants and suppressing dissent from
unions, press, church and students.

Luciano’s Commission
Gets Its Own Country

Mafia and Nazi support
for US imperialism in Latin America worked so well that the US government
awarded the Mafia its own country to exploit. When Luciano was released from
prison, he lived in Italy but Cuba became his base of operations. Luciano held
business meetings in Havana for developing his nternational criminal syndicate.
He was even seen enjoying Havana’s night life in the company of Frank Sinatra
and other Hollywood celebrities.

At one Havana meeting,
Vito Genovese tried to force Luciano into retirement. Genovese wanted to run the
Commission, but needed Luciano’s government contacts. But Luciano was not ready
to retire. "There is no Boss of Bosses,” Luciano told Genovese. “I turned
it down in front of everybody. If I ever change my mind, I will take the title.
But it won't be up to you. Right now you work for me and I ain't in the mood to
retire. Don't you ever let me hear this again, or I'll lose my temper."

From Cuba, Luciano planned the expansion of the
Commission’s criminal enterprises in the US including gambling, prostitution,
looting union funds and, most importantly, the trafficking of narcotics. In a
parley of more than thirty Sicilian and American Mafia leaders held in Genoa,
Luciano drew up the plans for the smuggling and distribution of heroin into the
United States. Luciano later held a meeting in the Grand Hotel et des Palmes in
Palermo, Sicily. He awarded the Sicilian Mafia the rights to distribute heroin
in the U.S. and gave the American mobsters the right to collect "franchise
fees" as their share of the narcotics profits. Luciano's plan mimicked the
franchising strategies used by such corporations as MacDonald’s and Coca-Cola. Luciano
adopted another corporate strategy to expand the tiny heroin and cocaine market
in the U.S. by reducing the price of his narcotics and targeting white working
class and black urban neighborhood as the most lucrative markets. All the while
Luciano’s government contacts assured him that his drug trade as well as his
other criminal enterprises were protected.

By 1957, Vito Genovese and
Carlo Gambino felt strong enough to move against Luciano. Genovese murdered
Luciano’s Lord High Executioner, Albert Anastasia, the head of Murder,
Incorporated and anointed himself the boss of the crime commission. But the US
government stepped in and on April 4, 1959, convicted Genovese of violating federal
narcotics laws. Genovese died in prison. On January 26, 1962, Luciano died of a
heart attack at Naples International Airport. Carlos Gambino then headed the
Commission and the most powerful man in the Mafia.

Castro Closes Cuba to
the Commission

In 1959, Fidel Castro
took Cuba away from Luciano’s Crime Commission. When the US government under
John F. Kennedy failed to implement the Commission’s plans for regime change Luciano
and his criminal confederates decided to find a more reliable partner. The found
one in Corporate America. With the assassination of President John Kennedy and
the seizure of the government’s legal, military and legislative apparatus.
Luciano’s Crime Commission cemented its new partnership and the international
crime commission and the multinational Corporate America experienced an explosion
in profits. The Crime Commission grabbed billions from drug trafficking,
prostitution and gambling, both legal and illegal. Corporation profits skyrocketed from insider
trading, junk bonds, banking deregulation, no-bid contracts, right to work
laws, free trade treaties and war profiteering. The partnership between the International
Crime Commission and Corporate America was implemented by their absolute
freedom from any legal, judicial or regulatory restraint, guaranteed by Murder,
Incorporated. The reconstituted Murder, Incorporated got access to the vast resources
found in the US legal, intelligence, internal revenue, justice and military establishments
creating the American oligarchy that is “too big to fail and too powerful to
jail.”

The Crime Commission and
Corporate America: An American Oligarchy

The American oligarchy
has an international reach. Global trade agreements underwritten by IMF allow
corporations to loot countries around the world while an international ‘War On
Drugs’ allows the Mafia to use the CIA, FBI and DEA to import cocaine and
heroin from all over the world and distribute tons of drugs throughout the
United States. The Commission also profits from all forms of legal and illegal
gambling and burgeoning that includes everything from online prostitution,
child pornography to medical sex products, physical and pharmaceutical. Profits
earned by the American oligarchy are used to purchase and punish legislators,
judges and executives throughout the country as well as in Washington.

The American corporate
and criminal oligarchy is fully entrenched only because of Murder, Incorporated’s to unrestricted
violence. Murder, Incorporated guarantees that no matter how heinous their
crimes, no matter how many its victims, the alliance between corporations and
criminal elements need never be concerned with criminal prosecution or criminal
punishment. Murder, Incorporated has eliminated all democratic control over the
American oligarchs. Murder, Incorporated’s violence against innocent people and
subversion of sovereign nation states bears the trademarks of Nazi fascism that
provided the blueprint for the oligarchic takeover of democratic and non-democratic
states all over the globe.

Barack Obama and Murder,
Incorporated

Fearing that they had
overstepped themselves, the American oligarchs took the unprecedented step of
installing a “negro” in the American presidency. The move has proven extremely
successful. President Barack Obama has given the oligarchs billions from the US
treasury and, thanks to the finely-tuned Nazi-styled propaganda machine and,
due to the woeful ignorance of the American public, plans to give them billions
more. The oligarchs use of propaganda has played a major role in selling the
multi- billion dollar revenue stream for insurance companies to the American
public. Obamacare is nothing more that a
21st century improvement on the Mafia’s 19th century protection racket. But its
Obama’s utilization of Murder, Incorporated that really keeps the oligarchs in
power. Obama has contracted out so many ‘hits’ on Americans and non-Americans,
alike, that during his 2012 presidential campaign, Obama boasted to his aides: “I’m really good at killing people." And
by all accounts, this was not an idle boast.
In 2009 Obama oversaw a surge of
30,000 American troops in Afghanistan. 1,593 of the 2,162 U.S. casualties in
Afghanistan, 73.7 percent, occurred after 2009 Obama’s surge. Between 2001 and
2008, 21,136 Afghan citizens and 4,478
militants were killed by the US military. Between 2009 and 2011, during Obama’s
presidency 8,210 Afghan civilians and less than a thousand militants were
killed. In 2011, Obama launched 145 Predator drone strikes on Afghanistan.

Obama oversaw the
bombing of Libya, the destabilization of the Libyan government and the murder
of Muammar Gaddhafi. He directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Obama
ordered his CIA-led army to dis-stabilize the Syrian government and overthrow
Bashar al-Assad. When his attacks against Syria failed, Obama had Turkey supply
the Syrian rebels with Saran gas for use against Syrian women and children as a
ruse for using US air power. 140,000 civilians have been killed in Syria by Obama’s
Murder Incorporated.

Obama’s expanded his use
of drones everywhere. 326 drone strikes in Pakistan, 93 in Yemen, and 80 in
Somalia. Obama refuses to provide the information on the number drone strikes
in Africa or the number of civilians killed. In 2011, he ordered the murders of
American-born Anwar al-Awlaki and his American-born, 16-year-old son with
drones without a trial and without being accused of any crime.

Obama has pioneered "signature
strikes.” Drone operators are directed
to choose their targets based on ‘suspicious behavior’ where the identities of
those killed aren't known. These “signature strikes” target all
"military-age males" in a strike zone. Furthermore, Obama has
pioneered the “double tap” bombing mission. Drone operators are directed to bomb
the same place in quick succession in order to kill first responders such as
doctors, fire fighters and other emergency personnel, coming to render aid to
civilian casualties. The US government under Barack Obama gave millions to the
Ukrainian press, politicians and neo-Nazi organizations to implement regime
change in the Ukraine. His successful use of Murder, Incorporated had caused a
civil war in the Ukraine where neo-Nazi thugs and Russian loyalists are killing
Ukrainian civilians in the thousands. Obama has more than justified his boast
of being good at killing people. With Murder, Incorporated firmly in his grasp,
Obama has indeed killed a lot of innocent people and is the ideal tool for the
American oligarchy.